The IRS Is Holding $20M in Unclaimed Stimulus Check Payments. How to Claim Your Money

The IRS could owe you money from your 2020 tax return — including an unclaimed 2020 Recovery Rebate Credit — and it’s set to disappear this spring. If you didn’t file your taxes in in 2021 because you didn’t think you qualified, you forgot, or you simply didn’t want to deal with the stress of … Read more

Unclaimed Property Day is Feb. 1. How to Check If Your State Has Your Unclaimed Property

I claimed $200. That’s not nothing, but it’s way below the $2,080 average unclaimed property amount others get.  California is holding onto $13 billion worth of unclaimed property. New York has even more, nearly $19 billion in what it calls “lost money.” States are holding onto money sitting in bank accounts, uncashed checks, wages, stocks, … Read more

Mass graves, unclaimed bodies and overcrowded cemeteries. The war robs Gaza of funeral rites

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — It was neither the place nor the time for a proper goodbye, said Omar Dirawi. Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags. And not now, as Israeli airstrikes crashed around him for the third week, erasing more of … Read more